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Stocks to watch Wednesday: Abbott, Apple

WilliamSpain

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Apple, Boeing and Polaris Industries.

Apple
AAPL, -1.54%
jumped about 8% after hours Tuesday after it reported that its fiscal first-quarter earnings more than doubled on brisk sales of its iPhone and issued an outlook for the current quarter that is well ahead of Wall Street’s current forecast.

Abbott
ABT, -1.59%
is slated to report its fourth-quarter financial results before the opening bell. The pharmaceutical firm is expected to earn $1.44 a share on revenue of $10.76 billion according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet Research.

Also due up is aircraft manufacturer Boeing
BA, -1.72%
, which should post a profit of $1 a share with revenue of $19.37 billion if Wall Street’s best guess is on the mark.

And Polaris
PII, -1.60%
, a maker of off-road vehicles and snowmobiles, is seen earning 88 cents a share with revenue of $752.7 million.

Late Tuesday, shares of CA Technologies
CA, -0.31%
surged 18% in after-hours action after the company said it plans to return some $2.5 billion to shareholders through 2014 via quintupling its annual dividend and expanding its stock-repurchase program.

But chip maker Advanced Micro Devices
AMD, -0.74%
edged down about 2% after it reported that it lost $177 million, or 24 cents a share, in the fourth quarter; it posted a profit of $375 million, or 50 cents a share, for the same period a year ago.

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